Symantec’s Security Solutions Advance Future of Protection

Symantec’s Website Security Solutions Advance
the Future of Trust and Protection on the
Internet

New SSL Algorithms and Web
Security Products Prepare Enterprisesfor the
Hyper-Connected Internet and New Encryption
Requirements

AUCKLAND – 14 February
2013 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) unveiled new
updates to its Website Security Solutions portfolio with
innovative and comprehensive capabilities to meet the
increasing security and performance needs for connected
businesses. The WSS strategy focuses on protecting
companies, meeting compliance requirements, improving
performance and reducing infrastructure costs. The end
result is to deliver trusted shopping, trusted advertising
and trusted applications for businesses and their customers.
The company also announced the first available
multi-algorithm SSL certificates with new ECC and DSA
options. These offerings will help organisations protect
their web eco-systems and strengthen the foundation of trust
online.

“As companies execute
their web strategies, they face increased complexities in
protecting their business in a world of internet-connected
things,” said Fran Rosch, vice president identity and
authentication Services, Symantec. “Website Security
Solutions can solve their unique challenges with
first-to-market solutions, ECC- and DSA-powered
certificates, to secure and accelerate their business.”

To stay ahead of new and sophisticated cyber
threats, Symantec began transitioning customers to its RSA
2048-bit SSL certificates last year. With today’s
announcement, the company broadens its SSL portfolio with
new security algorithms to address this requirement with
increased protection and performance.

ECC
Algorithms Faster and StrongerSymantec is the
first certificate authority to offer commercially available
SSL certificates using Elliptic Curve Cryptography
(ECC) and Digital Signature Algorithm
(DSA). ECC is currently scheduled to be available
in Symantec™ Managed PKI for SSL first half of 2013. Based
on internal testing1, ECC advancements deliver the following
advantages:• Greater security as Symantec ECC will be
10,000 times harder to break than an RSA 2048-bit key based
on industry computation methods. Symantec 256-bit ECC
certificates offer the equivalent security of a 3072-bit RSA
certificate.• Improved server performance during peak
loads with the ability to process more requests per second
with lower CPU utilisation, which becomes more important as
mobile and tablet adoption place increasing demands on web
infrastructure.• Improved server-to-desktop
performance and response time. Internal testing showed a
server with an RSA certificate handled 450 requests per
second with an average response time of 150 milliseconds to
the desktop clients. The server with an ECC certificate
under the same conditions netted an average response of just
75 milliseconds.

ECC delivers higher scalability to
handle the demands of online interactions across billions of
connected endpoints, enabling organisations to make greater
gains in their online information sharing, cloud services
and global ecommerce initiatives. For end users, improved
computational performance and enhanced infrastructure
utilisation increase their overall productivity for a more
favorable experience.

“The future is going to necessitate
increasingly higher security cryptography and Akamai sees
ECC as a technology that will allow cloud platforms to scale
to meet those security demands without the crippling
complexity of today’s common algorithms,” explained
Stephen Ludin, chief architect, Akamai Technologies. “It
is a significant step forward to better protect our data
online in this hyper-connected world. As the Certificate
Authority ecosystem for ECC gets ready, we will be building
support into the Akamai Intelligent Platform.”

“Juniper's SSL VPN solution, #1 in the world market,
supports both ECC and DSA algorithms for added security and
flexibility. The Junos Pulse SSL VPN client and gateway
software are both FIPS compliant,” said Michael Callahan,
VP of product marketing, Juniper Networks. “We are fully
committed to and continue to invest in standards-based
security solutions, including the strictest of NIST Suite B
standards for our customers, across federal, enterprise and
service provider markets.”

“F5 helps customers
seamlessly combine industry-leading traffic management with
security and access solutions, including VPN and SSL
encryption capabilities,” said Jason Needham, VP of
product management and product marketing, F5 Networks.
“One of the primary goals is to give organisations more
choice and flexibility in deploying technologies to suit
their business needs. F5 is proud to team up with leaders
like Symantec to help enterprises and service providers
enhance web and mobile security while scaling to better
support cloud and BYOD initiatives.”

Recover Costs and Eliminate Expensive Downtime
with Powerful New SSL Management Services The
difficulties and complexities, in tracking SSL certificates
and staying compliant, increase in tandem with the diversity
of networks in large enterprises. A recent Symantec SSL
global customer survey2 of companies using more than 2,000
SSL certificates, reported an average loss of US$222,000
last year due to unexpected certificate expiration, rogue
certificates, misconfigured certificates, and in some
instances lost millions of dollars due to downtime of
critical business systems.

Symantec updates its
Certificate Intelligence Center cloud
service with new management and automation capabilities to
manage the certificate lifecycle, from installations,
renewals and upgrades to revocation. Other key features
include a comprehensive view of a customer’s entire SSL
portfolio with integrated monitoring, reporting and rating
functions. Automation capability is currently scheduled to
be available the first half of 2013.

Safe
Delivery of Trusted Applications
Symantec Secure App Service
delivers an industry first in offering a hosted code-signing
service for companies and app stores to secure their
third-party or company-owned applications. This new
cloud-based service assures users the application they are
using is trusted and authenticated and has not been
maliciously tampered with. For the app developer, the Secure
App Service provides full audit and reporting capabilities
to track activity for better control and protection.
Available today with a SOAP API for integration within the
enterprise environment, Secure App Service is scheduled to
be available this summer with a full management GUI.

Website Security Solutions Tackle Increased
Malvertising AttacksThe increase in
malvertisements or malicious ads threatens online businesses
and ad networks serving up online ads. According to a recent
survey of ad publishers3, more than 50 percent have
experienced at least one malvertising incident in the last
twelve months and about 90 percent rate malvertising
protection as very important.

Symantec’s
AdVantage is the company’s first
advertising and media service to protect web businesses and
brand reputations. The secure cloud-based service delivers
real-time monitoring, notification and detailed forensics of
malvertisement incidents. Ad networks and publishers get
immediate insights through visual tracing and comprehensive
incident reporting to quickly remediate issues and reduce
risk in display advertising.

Partner Quotes
on ECC Adoption“Citrix recognises that ECC
encryption represents the future of SSL encryption,” said
Steve Shah, sr. director, Citrix. “This shift in the
cryptographic infrastructure is clearly a next generation
approach to the security ecosystem, allowing for better
scalability in cloud computing and the supporting
infrastructure. Once the certification authority
infrastructure is in place, the trend will be clear to
follow for networking product groups to make remote data
centres more accessible quickly, even allowing for
increasing key sizes and increasing security needs.”

“HID Global specialises in security access
solutions for the cloud, data and the door, with a
comprehensive portfolio incorporating both physical and
logical access solutions,” said Julian Lovelock, VP of
product marketing at HID Global. “We’re very supportive
of the new DSA and ECC algorithm options emerging in the
marketplace, and we strongly feel that where the NIST Suite
B has drawn up the future of security algorithms, the
industry will follow.”

“At Opera we are
committed to both high quality and security, and we welcome
the adoption of new and improved security standards on the
web. Elliptic Curve Cryptography provides significant
improvements over earlier algorithm standards, and we are
delighted to see Symantec support it. Opera's Presto engine
added support for ECC in version 395.” Source: Security
Manager at Opera

“Red Hat and Symantec have long
collaborated to bring compelling, secure solutions to our
customers. We continue to be interested in providing the
advantages of increased security and computational
efficiency that ECC offers for key management and digital
signature, and have been an active participant with Symantec
in Project Beacon. Currently, our Red Hat Certificate System
supports ECC public-key cryptographic systems and continues
to enhance its web browser and operating system ECC
support." Bryan Che, general manager, Cloud Business Unit,
Red Hat

AdVantage Customer
Quote“As a leading digital media network in
South East Asia, our business depends on protecting our
customers, and network of over 10,000 websites, from
increasing threats and malvertisements,” said Eng Tat,
head of technology development, Innity. “Symantec
AdVantage provides critical security against the malicious
advertisements that can ruin display advertising, damage
brand reputation and ultimately, hurt eCommerce
businesses.”

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